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Grant Information

GIVING BACK TO PENSACOLA

Each year, the membership of Sunday's Child awards grants to local charities and economic initiatives in amounts ranging from $25,000 to $50,000.

Sunday's Child grants help fund initiatives that address a community need or help develop projects in support of the greatest good for the Pensacola Bay Area. Grant funding comes from membership contributions, and each membership of Sunday's Child will have a vote toward selecting the funded projects.

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Initiatives that cultivate, develop, and enhance the cultural and artistic climate of the Pensacola Bay Area. Initiatives that further the educational process or improve access to education for children and/or adults in the Pensacola Bay Area .

The Sunday's Child committees that oversee the grant categories will review and evaluate the applicants for quality, contribution significance and inclusivity. This will include research and review as well as site visits. One or more organizations from each category will be selected as a finalist and will conduct a presentation at the annual membership meeting in June. After the presentation, a vote from members will determine the award recipients.

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2017 grant Applications

Only those charities that have successfully completed a letter of intent by January 13, 2017 may apply.

Applications will be made available by the end of day on January 13, 2017.

2017 Grant Application deadline of February 24, 2017 has passed.

Grant Cycle Schedule 2016-2017

Grant Cycle Schedule 2016-2017

Making the Pensacola Bay Area Shine, One Year at a Time

The Sunday's Child grant schedule is designed specifically to supplement the efforts of local non-profit IMPACT100. Our grants help to support organizations who may not yet qualify for IMPACT100 grants. Please keep these important dates in mind when preparing to apply for a Sunday's Child grant.

2017 Timeline of key events

Important Dates

Grant applicants: Mark your calendars. The following dates are important in ensuring Sunday's Child receives your application in a timely manner.

Jan 13, 2017: Letter of Intent (LOI) Due

This must be submitted to prequalify as a grant applicant

This must be submitted electronically (Form link for LOI is at top of page)

Workshop for Grant Applicants on Jan 11, 2017

Feb 24, 2017: Grant Applications Due

After grant applications received, focous groups, from Sunday's Child membership, meet to review/assess including site visits to charities.

May 19, 2017: Finalists Notified

Semi-Finalists are required to do a run-through of their presentation to Focus Group Leads prior to annual meeting.

For prospective charities wishing to learn more about Sunday's Child's grant opportunities for 2017.

2017 Grant Review Application- Please download and print this document from the link. We will be referring to this at the workshop so bring a copy with you.

When: January 11th 2017 from 1pm to 3pm

Where: GULFPOWER, 1 ENERGY PL, PENSACOLA, FL 32520. CONFERENCE ROOM

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Name of Charity *

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Grant Winners

Grant Winners

grant winners

Since the start of Sunday's Child, more than $230,000 has been awarded to local charities in the Pensacola Bay Area.

The following are the charities and their projects.

2017

Manna Food Pantries

(Category Health, Wellness & Recreation: Grant Award: $25,700)

Manna’s winning proposal will fund the development and construction of a climate-controlled dry room within the organization's new headquarters and distribution facility. The room will be large enough to allow space for repackaging bulk items as well as storage for more than 30 pallets of dry food that is distributed weekly to nearly 900 families in the Pensacola Bay Area.

Independence for the Blind

(Category Health, Wellness & Recreation, Grant Award: $25,700)

Independence for the Blind, the only nonprofit entirely devoted to educating the blind and visually impaired in Northwest Florida, will utilize grant dollars to build their SOAR (Safe Outdoor Area for Recreation) project. The project will span a half-acre and will be developed into a safe, appropriate place for blind children, teens, and adults to engage in physical activity. Included within the project is the purchasing of custom sports equipment for blind youth, a new watering system, recreational facilities, and three new raised garden beds.

Friends of Escambia County Animal Shelter

(Category Animals & Environment, Grant Award: $25,700)

Friends of the Escambia County Animal Shelter will purchase a transport van to allow the support organization to transport animals from over-capacity local animal shelters to areas of the country less burdened with pet overpopulation. The transport will connect to the established Puppy Pipeline in Hoover, Alabama, where pets are professionally transported to no-kill shelters in other locations where there is a high demand for adoptable pets.

Pensacola United Methodist Community Ministries

(Category Health, Wellness & Recreation, Grant Award: $25,700)

Pensacola United Methodist Community Ministries will benefit from the purchase of a new state-of-the-art walk-in refrigeration unit to assist in the charity’s mission to meet the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of people suffering from hunger within Pensacola’s Brownsville community and the Pensacola Bay Area. The new unit will greatly reduce food spoilage and will expand the efficiencies of more than 20,000 hot meals annually at their Brownsville facility.

Children’s Home Society of Florida

(Category Family & LGBT, Grant Award: $25,700)

With their grant dollars, the Children’s Home Society of Florida will be able to expand their services to care for the thousands of children in the Pensacola Bay Area who are malnourished and alone. Their project will support securing host homes for runaway and homeless youth, including those who have behavior challenges, identify as LGBT, are pregnant, parenting, or human trafficking victims. The project will support a recruiter to participate in outreach and innovative marketing strategies to recruit, secure, and train host families willing to parent homeless youth. Sunday’s Child funding will also provide direct street outreach to area youth.

2016

First City Arts Center

(Category Arts, Culture & Education, Grant Award: $35,500)

2000 Degrees: A Portable Glass Arts Education Program will allow FCAC to outreach in every direction and to include the maximum number of people in the glass education programs. This is done through the use of a portable glass studio. A fully equipped, portable glass blowing studio can drive to the doorstep of any school, festival or function. The goal of this program is to teach design charrettes and provide educational demonstrations for students and the general public. An increase of public participation by 100% in the first year will be achieved by visiting at least two schools each month throughout the year and by participating in community festival throughout the area.

THE BEACON*

(Category Family & LGBT, Grant Award: $35,500)

Rapid Re-Housing Project is a project to calm the homeless crisis. Expedition of the re-housing of homeless families and single women is accomplished by providing rent and utilities assistance. The project also focuses on rebuilding client’s problem-solving and decision making skills to make the program sustainable. The result of this project will increase the capacity to serve an increased number of new clients due to the expedited process of re-housing.

*Due to unforeseen circumstances, The Beacon was unable to open their cold-weather shelter. Sunday's Child worked to help them meet their grant obligations (their project was an extension to their shelter) in a timely fashion. Because a new shelter site has not been established, The Beacon has withdrawn from the Sunday's Child grant award of $35,500. No funds were distributed to The Beacon, and as per Sunday's Child polices for unused or defaulted monies, funds will be rolled over to the following grant cycle, 2017.

2015

ARC GATEWAY

(Category of Economic Development, Grant Award: $33,125)

Forklift for Pollack Industries will allow the purchase of a new forklift, which will permit adults with disabilities to work and receive a paycheck while providing a service to our community. Pollack Industries, a project of Arc Gateway that employs disabled adults on production contracts, utilizes a team of twelve individuals with disabilities and one non-disabled person to manufacture cement parking bumpers and cement air-conditioning pads for local contractors, businesses, and builders. These cement items, weighing between 200-225 pounds, must be transported from the production areas, loaded onto trucks and delivered to project sites. This cannot be done without the aid of a forklift.

Currently, their forklift is over 20 years old, breaks often, and must be replaced in order to continue providing services. A new forklift would aid in streamlining and expanding production and distribution.

LEGAL SERVICES OF NORTH FLORIDA, INC.

(Category of Family & LGBT, Grant Award $33,125)

Legal Education and Victim Empowerment project, or The L.E.A.V.E., will allow Legal Services of North Florida to hire a staff attorney for one year to develop enhanced advocacy and education tools to support victims of violence and bullying within our community. This attorney will go into our community to educate other providers of their obligations, including school personnel, law enforcement and the courts, our entire community will be elevated to an improved dialogue. The Legal Education and Advocacy for Victim Empowerment (LEAVE) project will give victims and allies legal tools with which to prevent violence and bullying in our families, schools, and entire community. While LEAVE may serve victims of all different experiences, a focus will be placed on LGBTQ youth, LGBTQ relationships, homeless and dependent youth, and youth with disabilities.